Paper is a universal raw material that is used in a wide variety of areas of human life. In the work of many people, they take this material as a basis. Both adults and children will be very interested to know what crafts can be made from paper.
Original paper products
It’s not at all difficult to make beautiful paper crafts at home. A fair number of all kinds of shapes require drawn diagrams according to which the product is assembled. Armed with a pencil and a ruler, anyone can create a craft using a template. All you have to do is draw a diagram, and you can easily create pieces of furniture or gift boxes, for example.
Each interesting idea has instructions on how to make a craft. It is important to note that the dotted lines of the diagram are fold lines.
Photos of paper crafts, as well as detailed instructions and descriptions of the necessary materials and tools can be found on the Internet. In our article we offer some options for crafts of different levels of complexity.
For the little ones
From a very young age, children begin to show interest in paper. We invite parents and their children to make a bright and beautiful bird. Your baby can use it to play or decorate the room.
Before you start working, you should prepare. You will need a bird template, cardboard, thin paper (square) and colored pencils or markers. Using this template you cut out the bird. Then draw the beak, feathers and tail.
Wings are made from a thin square sheet of paper. To do this, you need to fold it like an accordion and then secure it in the body of the bird in a previously prepared hole.
It is important to remember that the cutting process must take place under the strict supervision of an adult. And don’t forget to explain to your child that after work all tools should be put back in their places.
Decorate the bird by gluing ribbons, sparkles or rhinestones on it.
Three-dimensional paintings
All paper crafts can be simple or complex. Applique is considered one of the simplest techniques for making paper crafts. Children learn this type of creativity in the early stages of their education.
Work algorithm
- Fold the napkin 4 times and fasten it with a stapler in the middle. Cut the corners to make a circle.
- Form a flower by separating the layers of the circle.
- Cut out a few green leaves.
- Cut out the basket.
- Glue all the parts onto a sheet of cardboard.
Please note that corrugated paper or foil can be used to make a basket.
Torn paper applique
Another way to applique without using scissors is to work with confetti or torn paper.
To work you must have:
- glue;
- torn paper (or confetti) of different colors;
- cardboard for the base;
- pencil.
Work algorithm:
- We put an image on the cardboard.
- Apply glue to the details of the image one by one.
- Place pieces of paper or confetti on top of the glue.
If desired, the picture can be decorated with a frame made of any other materials, or inserted into a photo frame. Attach a loop on the back side, and you can hang such a children's masterpiece on the wall.
Weaving
There are a huge variety of ways to learn how to make paper crafts using the weaving technique. This is a very original approach to creating an exclusive piece.
The simplest technique in this technique is weaving strips in a checkerboard pattern. For those who are not looking for easy ways, working with paper tubes is suitable.
It is worth considering that the properties of the product will depend on the type of material you choose. You can work with:
- plain paper;
- newspaper;
- tape for cash registers;
- glossy magazines.
This way you will get a durable and high-quality product. Once the product is woven, you can decorate it as you wish. There are no restrictions here.
Origami
One of the most complex techniques for working with paper is called origami. Next, we offer a master class on paper crafts using this technique. As an example, we will make chicken.
To work on the product you will need a square piece of thin paper and pencils (black and red).
Algorithm for performing the work:
- Bend the paper diagonally.
- Expand.
- Bend into two equal parts
- Expand the left and right corners of the square.
- Bend these corners in the middle so as to combine them and as a result get a pentagon.
- Fold the top of the cone into the middle.
- Bend the same cone in the opposite direction, but so that a small corner remains outside the sheet, which will become the beak.
- Align the left and right edges of the product, but so that the beak is on the left side.
- Fold the upper right corner into the middle of the product.
- Bend the lower right corner, which consists of two sheets, outward. When making these movements, it is important to align the lower sides. Also at this time you need to move a small corner beyond the leftmost border. This is how the paws were made.
- Turn a small corner tail onto the outside.
- Lower the beak a little.
- Draw the eyes with a black pencil.
- Color in the beak with a red pencil.
The magic of origami surprises and intrigues children. Having mastered the technique yourself, you can teach your child to make new interesting toys.
If you show your imagination, you can make whatever you want out of paper. Your craft will be exclusive, first of all, because it is handmade. And it depends only on you how people will see it: color or black and white, flat or three-dimensional. In addition, we now have access to a choice of all kinds of raw materials for creativity and decoration.
Photos of paper crafts
Often at school and in kindergarten they give tasks to children, read - to parents, to make crafts on a specified topic, usually for the fall holiday, federal holidays, such as New Year, etc. And here begins the dance of fantasy and the competition of skillful parental hands, we try to remember what we ourselves did in childhood.
But you want the child to also participate in the process and receive pleasure and satisfaction from it. Still, everyone needs creativity. That’s why today I picked up a few fairly simple crafts that you wouldn’t be ashamed to use at a school or kindergarten exhibition. And the baby will be able to repeat this himself, under your strict guidance.
Have you ever cut out snowflakes by folding a piece of paper several times and then cutting out circles and triangles? Most likely yes, and they probably compared later which one turned out more beautiful and more delicate. So the craft that I want to invite you to make is created using this technique.
This basket is suitable for kindergarten and for keeping a small child occupied.
And today we will make a basket.
We need two blanks, as in the photo. I will give you a template, but you can make them yourself; I will also describe the process below.
1.To make them yourself, you need to take a piece of paper and make a 16*16 cm square out of it.
2. And roll towards the middle 4 times.
3. Remember how you made snowflakes as a child. Now we cut off a part from the edge in a semicircle.
It turned out to be a flower.
From each edge between the petals you need to trim a little so that the petals can curl.
4. We also prepare the leaf. Make the leaf square.
We do not cut off a semicircle, but first we need to make a long pestle.
Let's expand.
5. You need a strip of 30*2 cm, glue the handle of the basket.
We decorate it with multi-colored flowers, circles, beads or beads.
We bend the edges of the green leaf.
And glue the basket to the leaf.
You can use this template.
Of course, if the child is small, then you will have to make the blank yourself, but let the baby decorate the basket. He should enjoy this activity.
How to make a watch quickly and easily
And many more can remember how, carried away by the game, they remembered about the craft only for the coming sleep. There is simply no time to stretch out the process: the child has to go to school, and you have to go to work. We need to create something fast, cute and big.
Here is the next version of paper crafts just for this case. It's called "Clock". Depending on the chosen color and decor, this could be a New Year's watch, an autumn holiday, a decoration for a birthday, etc. You can continue the list yourself.
We will need:
- 4 sheets of A4 colored paper
- 4 circles with numbers
- Scissors
- Strip 20-30 cm long
- A piece of black construction paper
The basis for the clock is a fan made from sheets folded into an accordion. Let's start making them.
1. We begin to make an accordion; to do this, we fold the sheet in half along the long side.
2. Now fold the fold line to the edge again and repeat again.
3. Unfold and fold the edge in half towards the first fold.
4. And we continue to bend the sheet of paper in this way until we get a smooth, beautiful accordion.
We also fold the remaining 3 sheets.
5. Fold each corrugation in half and find the middle.
6. Now we make a fan, to do this we coat the edge with glue and glue both parts.
This is what the preparation should look like. We form the remaining fans.
7. Now we assemble the clock, for this we glue the fans together.
8. Cut out arrows from black paper.
9. And glue them to the clock.
10. Cover the junction with decor, a circle, a snowflake.
11. Glue the numbers.
12. Glue a strip to hang the clock.
That's all the work!
We make DIY crafts step by step for children from 9 to 11 years old
For older children, nine or eleven years old, I can offer an option for a simple, beautiful craft. But it requires care and accuracy. This is a beautiful ball of paper. You can also decorate a room with it, or you can take it to school for a holiday, or use it to make fruits or vegetables from your homework. And it looks very beautiful and unusual.
By the way, it is done without the use of glue, stapler, or tape. All you need is paper and scissors.
We make blanks as in the photo, you need to make 12 of them.
We cut out the blanks. You can make them yourself, so there is no special template.
To draw them beautifully, I suggest first drawing a pentagon with equal sides, and then using a compass to draw a semicircle with a diameter equal to the width of the side to each side. I hope I explained it clearly. In other words, the pitch of the compass leg will be the same as the width of the side.
Cut straight lines and bend them a little. Now we insert the blanks into each other.
Here is a photo of what the ball looks like in the process.
This is a fairly simple craft, but it requires dexterity and accuracy, so it will be just right for children 9-11 years old. A small child may not be able to cope with this task or may tear the workpiece.
By the way, you can take thicker paper, so the ball will turn out denser.
Corrugated paper cone
Flowers and candy bouquets are usually made from corrugated paper, but we will make a cone. Because boys like to make flowers more, but all children, regardless of gender, can make a spruce branch with cones.
We will need:
- Corrugated paper: brown and blue (green)
- Scissors
- Thread
1. Take a brown roll and cut off one edge without unpacking.
2. Cut the fold to make two strips.
3. Bend the edge 1 cm along the entire length.
4. Now we wrap the tucks along this edge, as in the photo.
5. We begin to roll this ribbon into a cone, leaving only the openwork edge on top.
6. The end of the cone can be tied with a rope, then we wrap it with a strip of blue or green corrugated paper.
7. Now we make twigs from the green strip. We cut the edge wider than the middle.
8. And we roll these strips into pine needles and twist them lengthwise, like a cone.
And here is a detailed video on how to make a bump.
Cardboard crafts for kids 5-6 years old
Well, what to do with small children? After all, they are interested in it in most cases. I offer two simple crafts. Not everyone still knows how to cut exactly along the lines, but they should still like the result. We will make a three-dimensional tree from cardboard and paper and a simple dog using the origami technique.
Cardboard tree
We will need:
- sheets of paper,
- cardboard,
- pen,
- glue,
- scissors.
1.Two A4 sheets need to be folded together and folded in half vertically.
2. And draw a tree so that part of the trunk is on the bend. Cut out the workpiece.
3. Fold the tree in half to determine its middle.
4. Now we separate the sheets and get 2 blanks.
We also find the middle of the second tree.
5. Now we retreat 3 mm from the fold for the first workpiece from the bottom to half, and for the second from the top to half.
6. You get two such halves of one tree.
7. Now we transfer these patterns onto cardboard and cut out the trunk.
8. You need to cut out leaves of different sizes from colored paper and glue them to the branches.
Now the tree needs to be assembled by inserting cardboard blanks into the grooves of each other.
You can make flowers or juicy fruits and berries.
Paper craft for kids “Dog”
The entire craft is created from just one piece of paper and is done quickly, the child will not have time to get tired. But diligence must be at the highest level in order to get everything right.
White leaf 10*10 cm.
Fold the leaf diagonally. This will be the head of our dog. Then we fold it again, so we determine the middle.
We wrap the edges, form ears, we do this in any order, but so that the tip extends beyond the sheet.
Now we are making a muzzle; for this we bend the bottom corner a little.
Let's cut out two small circles in advance and draw black pupils in them, these will be the eyes. Cut out a pink tongue and a black nose. And glue it all to the muzzle.
Did your children like the dog?
Paper leaves for school: 4th grade on the theme of autumn
Autumn is usually represented by either colorful leaves or an abundance of fruits and vegetables. We will also recreate it in the form of leaves. But they will be quite labor-intensive, but very beautiful.
Craft “Autumn leaf”
We will need:
- Need 5 squares 15*15 cm
- Rectangle 15*5 cm
- Double sided tape
- Scissors
- Stapler
1. Find the diagonal of the square by folding it in half, and then in half again.
2. We make 3 cuts on this triangle, leaving 3 mm from the fold.
We open the workpiece.
3. We begin to glue the corners into a tube. The first layer is to make the middle, using double-sided tape.
4. Turn over and glue the next corners.
5. And glue the remaining two corners, but alternately turning the leaf over.
This is the part of the leaf you will get. We make 4 more such leaves.
6. For the stem, simply twist a tube from a paper rectangle.
We connect the leaves with the stem, securing them with a stapler.
Watch the video on how to make these leaves.
Craft “Wreath of autumn leaves”
And here we will create a whole composition of autumn leaves, it looks very elegant and self-sufficient!
We need 10 squares 8*8 cm. Choose the color of the paper to match the colors of autumn.
Let's start making a yellow leaf.
1.Fold it in half, then fold each side into another half. You will get two large triangles.
2. Turn the leaf over and fold the remaining part to get two small triangles. As shown in the photo. We make 6 such blanks.
3. Now fold the next leaf in half again.
4. We wrap the two edges to make two large triangles and leave them.
5. Now we collect the leaf. We take the first two blanks and one with large triangles, coat the edges and glue it inside the first two blanks, as in the photo. It's like we'll put it inside.
6. Now you need to make a twig. To do this, turn the leaf over to the front side and place another leaf under it.
Glue it.
7. Turn it over to the wrong side and trim the leaf for the branch along the edges of the future leaf. This is necessary so that everything looks neat.
8. Now we wrap the cut edges inward and glue them.
We need at least 8 of these leaves.
Lay out a circle and glue them on top of each other to create a rounded shape for the wreath.
All leaves need to be connected to each other.
Schemes and templates
Most often, it is kids who make crafts, so I want to give here a few templates and diagrams that can be used in joint creativity.
For example, simply trace, attach a blank sheet of paper to the computer, cut out and let your child decorate.
Or suggest gluing butterflies to a piece of paper, but this is more related to appliqués.
Or make a wreath from such leaves.
Patterns of animals and trees.
Or tell your child that the bell is blue, cut it out and color it.
These are the crafts I prepared today to complete your homework or decorate your apartment for the holiday.
DIY crafts made from colored paper and cardboard are varied and amazing. Such crafts are suitable not only for children's creativity, but also for adults. From colored paper you can not only make a postcard and beautiful packaging, but also unusual sculptures and appliqués.
Types of crafts
There are several types of colored cardboard products. Let's look at what crafts you can make from colored paper.
Origami is a separate type of Japanese art. A sheet of paper is folded according to a pattern in a certain way to create various animals and other shapes.
An applique is a painting made by gluing pieces of colored paper onto a surface.
Volumetric crafts made from colored paper will help decorate the interior. For the New Year, you can make a garland of voluminous paper stars.
For Valentine's Day, make hearts out of red paper. They can not only decorate a room, but also give as a holiday gift.
Mostly adults are interested in sculptures. The most common types of sculptures are animals.
A variety of lions, cranes, and fox parrots will help you decorate your interior or make an unusual gift with your own hands. The sculptures are cut out of paper and glued together according to a template.
Paper vase
To create a vase you need: a variety of paper, a glass jar (any shape of your choice), scissors or a stationery knife, glue.
Using different shades you can create the most unusual creative vases. The paper needs to be beautifully cut and glued to a glass jar using glue.
Use your imagination to make your craft an unusual decoration. Such vases will not only complement the interior, but can also stand with flowers.
Paper fan
To create a craft you need to prepare: colored paper, glue, a stationery knife, various ribbons and beads for decoration.
You can look at photographs of similar crafts made from colored paper on the Internet and get interesting ideas for yourself. The fan can also be colored with felt-tip pens to give the craft an even more interesting look.
Paper flower crafts are very common. You can also make various turntables.
Crafts with children
You will not only give your child a gift, but also keep him busy with an interesting creative activity. Work together with your child. After all, children can start making crafts as early as three years old.
Visually show and tell your child in detail how to make the applique. He will definitely please you with the result.
A paper mosaic would be an interesting activity for a child. First draw a sketch on a piece of paper. Then cut the colored paper into small pieces. Let the child use his imagination and glue pieces of paper onto the sketch.
A simple craft is a napkin made from strips. It can be made in the form of an unusual chessboard. Use different shades.
Children will definitely like garlands for decoration for the New Year. They are easy to make. Colored paper is cut into thin strips.
Using glue, we glue the strips into rings. With such a garland you can decorate not only the Christmas tree, but also your apartment. You can make a more complex garland from flowers or hearts.
Try making daisies with your children. This is an easy but very beautiful craft. Cut out circles from yellow paper and glue them together. Cut the white paper into thin strips, roll the strips into a ring and glue them to the yellow core.
These daisies can be glued onto cardboard and decorated with green paper leaves. The result is a very nice panel that is very easy to make.
Show children how to make a beautiful picture of the underwater world. Cut out fish, seaweed, pebbles. Glue to paper. You can decorate the picture with ribbons, colored foil and other items.
There are a large number of different types of crafts for children and adults. You will definitely get some beautiful crafts made from colored paper. Show some imagination. Creative work will keep you busy.
Photos of crafts made from colored paper
Paper crafts are perhaps the most interesting hobby for children and adults. The manufacturing process is quite exciting, and at the same time, children develop imagination and motor skills. Below we have selected several master classes that we think will be of interest to you.
Paper butterfly
The butterfly is a bright companion of summer, a symbol of beauty and lightness. Each butterfly is unique and inimitable in its own way. Nature has tried to celebrate each winged beauty with bright colors and patterns. These beautiful insects decorate flower lawns, and in today's lesson we will try to decorate the room with a butterfly, which we will make with our own hands from paper. Making paper crafts helps children develop attentiveness, accuracy, perseverance and imagination. And what a surprise the baby will experience as he watches how an ordinary leaf turns into an amazing creature before his eyes!
In order to make a paper butterfly we will need:
- Paper;
- Scissors;
- Paints;
- Fantasy and great mood.
For this craft, a regular landscape piece of paper will do, but first you need to make it square. To do this, bend the upper left corner diagonally, and cut off the remaining section of paper with scissors. We have a square with one diagonal fold. You need to make another diagonal fold on the other side. To do this, bend the upper right and lower left corners.
We bend the lower ends of the resulting triangle upward. Then we turn the figure over with the wide side up and bend the top of the triangle so that its tip extends slightly beyond the edges.
We wrap the protruding end. Fold the future butterfly in half a little.
The butterfly figurine is ready, but for now it is white and inconspicuous. Therefore, it is the turn for the children to show their imagination and decorate the butterfly to their taste, using watercolor paint or felt-tip pens. The drawing can be the most unimaginable: from flowers, as in our example, to complex geometric patterns, the main thing is that the child enjoys the creative process. If desired, you can make a few more butterflies, allowing your child to make crafts without your help.
A boat made of colored paper
Of course, each of us loves when he succeeds at something. And especially, it was made by hand. And you do it simply for yourself, for the soul, without even thinking about the specific benefit. Although she will still be there. Crafts are a great way to show yourself that this activity is interesting and brings a lot of benefits. Especially when there are no costs and you can make something beautiful from scrap materials. And for children it’s a great joy to make something on their own, even if it’s not interesting to an adult, but to do it. And the task of every parent is to support their child, to praise him for what he himself was able to create. And also help, suggest and in no case scold if what you plan doesn’t work out. By doing such work, the child tries to understand the world himself, with the help of his imagination. He remembers everything he has ever seen and tries to reflect it in his products. For lovers of marine themes, we have prepared a lesson on how to make a simple boat. Feel like a real captain of the most beautiful ship, and even made with soul and love. All we need is:
- empty matchboxes;
- colored cardboard and colored paper;
- scissors;
- glue;
- tube.
Let's take matchboxes and stack them so that two are lying next to each other, and the third is on top of them. To give the boat the desired appearance and the advertising inscriptions on the boxes do not spoil the future product, cover the craft with plain paper, as shown in the picture.
After this we will make the stern of our ship. Cut out the base from cardboard, and use two strips to build the bow of our ship. Then, we will use a tube to build sails. Take a rectangular piece of cardboard and attach it to the tube as shown below. Let's complete the image with a small red flag at the end of the tube.
All that remains is to decorate the craft on the side so that the matchboxes are not visible. If you have small lego toys, they can take their place proudly on our beautiful deck.
Our boat is ready, it's time to hit the road!
Russian oven made of paper
The stove was the main attribute in the house: it heated the house, food was cooked in it, and it was given a special place. Therefore, the stove is always associated with satiety, warmth and comfort. In many Russian fairy tales we come across a Russian stove. Let’s remember Emelya, the fairy tale “Geese-Swans”, Baba Yaga. The stove is also found in ancient proverbs and sayings. And if a child is asked to make a product - a Russian stove, then this is not a problem at all. A real stove is built from brick, but we propose to create it from cardboard. A child can easily cope with this. A small Russian oven made of paper turns out to be very realistic.
For everything to work, you need to take:
- a small package left over from toothpaste;
- colored paper (white, orange and black);
- a little cotton wool;
- black marker;
- scissors;
- glue.
1. First, cut the toothpaste package into two halves, make one larger and the other smaller.
2. The larger one will stand vertically; we will attach the smaller half to the larger one horizontally.
3. Secure the structure of the craft with glue.
4. After it dries a little, cover it with white paper, simulating whitewashing.
5. Prepare a pipe for the stove; to do this, cut out a strip of cardboard, bend it to form a small pipe, and glue it to the base.
6. You need to cut out a small rectangular sheet of white paper. Prepare a firebox from black paper; an orange stripe will frame the firebox.
7. Carefully glue it all onto a white sheet. We wait until the glue dries.
8. Glue it to the oven in the appropriate place. Now we have a stove with a firebox!
9. The pipe must be covered with orange paper.
10. For naturalness, draw small bricks on the pipe with a black marker and insert a small piece of cotton wool into the pipe, straighten it, depicting smoke. For strength, so that it does not fall out, it is better to glue the cotton wool to the inside of the pipe.
Here's a Russian oven made from paper! I already want to warm my sides on it and remember my childhood, village, grandmother. The advantage of a paper stove is that it is small, light and does not take up half the house, but gives a touch of comfort and warmth.
Chicken made from disk and paper
How nice it is to receive gifts made by our loved ones and relatives. Moreover, do them yourself, including imagination and creativity. With our own hands, from available materials, we can prepare a wide variety of crafts and toys. This is a very exciting activity. And if you make crafts with your family members or friends, then you will definitely get a lot of pleasure from communication and the result of joint work. Today we will try to make a chicken from a disk and colored cardboard. It will not be bulky, and therefore it can be hung above the table or even on the Christmas tree in the New Year. Let's start!
For our toy we will need:
1. Old music or video disc,
- colored cardboard, we will need four colors - blue, white, yellow, red;
- scissors;
- pencil;
- glue;
- a small skein of yellow or beige wool threads.
2. The first thing we start with is to cut the threads finely and more. They will replace the chick's feathers for us.
3. Then, coat the disk well with glue and sprinkle it thickly with threads. After the disc has dried, shake it to remove any remaining hair.
4. Cut out oval eyes from cardboard paper - they will be white and blue. Let the beak and paws be red. And we’ll make the wings yellow. Oh, and don't forget the comb. Our chicken may be small, but he already has a comb. You can see every step in the photo.
The job is done, our chicken is ready. You can hang it on a string, as we said earlier. Ask dad to make a hole in the disk, stretch the thread and that’s it. The craft turned out to be unusual and joyful. The chick seems to be taking off, wanting to see what’s happening up there! Or maybe he wants to see where his friends are?
Similar to this craft, we can make a mother chicken or father rooster. And if you fantasize, then a bunny, a pig, a hedgehog, a bear cub, and other cartoon characters, for example. Moreover, we did not spend a lot of time and money on this activity. All that remains is to find a place for her. Or maybe we can give our chick as a gift to someone?
Paper ball
The creative process of creating various crafts and designs from paper will captivate both adults and children. After reading the instructions below, anyone can assemble a figure in the form of a beautiful multi-colored paper ball.
Colored paper (two colors that can contrast with each other, but without disturbing the harmonious combination, for example, blue and purple).
Quantity: for each of the eight modules (circles) that make up the final shape of the craft, you need five parts (if you plan to make the ball not large, you can cut out 2-3 such parts from one sheet of colored paper approximately the size of A4).
- 24 blue parts and 16 purple parts or equally divided - twenty parts of each color;
- Pencil;
- Ruler (to draw the sides of the cardboard template);
- A piece of cardboard (its size will depend on how large the wonderful paper ball shape is needed;
- A beautiful rope (not thick - with its help a finished three-dimensional figure can be attached to almost any place in the interior to decorate it);
- Scissors (preferably with sharp tips, especially if the figure is small, otherwise cutting will be difficult).
At the first stage of the creative process, you need to draw a sketch on cardboard with a pencil, according to which all the details for the ball figure will soon be cut out. It should be noted that the side parts of the depicted figure should be straight (use a ruler for accuracy), and the top and bottom should also be completely identical.
Both parts of the template figure look like a chef’s hat or a cake with cream, but the main thing is that the edges of the upper and lower parts, respectively, should form convenient “ears” for subsequent coupling into a three-dimensional figure. After completing the sketch, the pencil must be put aside, now it is time to carefully cut out the template figure from cardboard along the contour.
You need to take colored paper and draw the required number of figures and cut them out.
Next, you need to interlock the cut out figures so that they alternate in color, with each subsequent figure turning approximately ninety degrees from the previous one so that with its narrow side it can be inserted into the grooves of the long side of the previous part. Thus, you need to link five such parts into one circle.
If two purple and three blue parts were used to construct the circle, now you need to connect the two purple parts together (provided that the order rule was followed).
All modules are connected so that in each recess there are five “roundings”, that is, places where parts are connected.
Card for mom
The most memorable and expensive gift is a gift made with your own hands. An original postcard will be an excellent gift for your mother, grandmother or sister, because in addition to a handmade postcard, you are giving a part of your soul, according to the belief of many peoples, in every thing we create, we put a piece of our soul. And this is the most valuable thing!
And so let's start, for the craft we will need the following materials:
- Glue, preferably paper;
- Colored paper;
- Scissors;
- Marker;
- Unnecessary magazines with pretty pictures.
We make a postcard blank from cardboard, draw a pattern in the form of semicircles along the edges of our postcard. You can come up with another ornament, show your imagination.
Carefully cut out our blank along the lines.
On our blank, glue a sheet of colored paper, distribute the glue carefully so that the colored paper adheres well to the cardboard.
It is necessary to make preparations of daisies. We cut out two small circles from white cardboard - these will be the petals of our future chamomile, and from yellow cardboard we need to cut out two circles of smaller diameter for the middle of our flower.
We collect our daisies and glue the yellow center of the daisy to our white petals. In this way we collect four flowers.
Now for our daisies, we need to make stems. We will make them as follows: on a sheet of cardboard, green, draw lines at a distance of 2-4 centimeters, we have three daisies, therefore we need to draw three lines.
We cut out our stripes exactly along the contour. The stems for our daisies are ready.
Next comes the fun part, assembling and decorating the postcard. To our cardboard blank, we glue the daisies and stems that we made earlier, we place the flowers slightly at an angle so that they fit on our card.
We cut out beautiful pictures from old magazines to decorate the craft. We glue the ornament found in the magazine to the corners of the card. And on the right edge we’ll plant a beautiful butterfly.
Now is the most important moment, we make an inscription with wishes for a loved one. From pink colored paper we cut out a blank in the shape of a “cloud”. We make the inscription “To Mommy” on it and paste it onto our card.
The original card is ready, all that remains is to give it as a gift.
Paper pencil using origami technique
Origami is a fascinating technique that can interest all family members. It’s amazing how a familiar object suddenly appears from one flat sheet of paper at the next fold, without glue, scissors, or anything else.
You will need a little perseverance and accuracy, and you will definitely be able to create a voluminous paper craft, for example, a pencil.
Necessary materials:
- Colored Double Sided Square Sheet
We used yellow and green colors so that it was clearly visible that this was a pencil. And you can also make the first option so as not to get confused in the description, and then, when you learn how to do it, you can use any colors. Or use single-sided colored paper, then the pencil back and lead will be colored, and the core will be a contrasting white color.
Place the sheet on the table with the yellow side up. We apply the right corners of the sheet to the left, and making sure that the line is straight, make a fold. Without changing the position of the sheet, we unbend it again with the yellow side up.
In the same way, carefully apply the two upper corners to the lower corners and bend the sheet in half, carefully forming a fold line.
Unfold the sheet again, yellow side up. Now our square is divided into four equal squares by perpendicular fold lines.
Again we take the square by the upper corners and bend our upper small squares in half. Pull the upper corners to the central fold strip on the square. Again, straighten the full square with the yellow side up. And again we bend the upper corners, so that the green color does not even reach the very top fold strip. We get a yellow square with a thin green stripe on top, as in the picture below.
Let's pay attention to one fold that runs vertically through the center of the leaf. We take the sheet by the squares on the left and bend it towards this center. We repeat these steps with the right corners. Now in front of us lies a green rectangle with two horizontal fold lines.
We take the upper inner corners (which are at the vertical fold) and bend them to the edges. Yellow pieces with green stripes along the edges should appear. As shown in the picture below, we bend these strips to the sides as far as the paper will allow.
Now we bend the right and left upper squares diagonally back. The pencil is ready.
Such pencils can be used in many different ways: used as a bookmark, as a decorative element when decorating a school office, as a children's toy, etc.
Christmas tree made of paper
The main attribute of the New Year is the Christmas tree. Everyone decides for themselves whether to dress up an artificial or living forest beauty. But in addition to the main Christmas tree, you can make several small ones with your own hands. With the help of such a craft, we can decorate rooms or present it as a small souvenir that will certainly lift the festive mood.
Required equipment:
- colored paper;
- glue;
- wire;
- stand;
- pencil;
- ruler;
- scissors;
- compass;
- beads for decoration.
Twist one end of the wire into a spiral and attach it with glue to a small, stable block.
Using a compass, draw circles on the back of the colored paper. The diameter of the largest should be 20 cm, and the smallest - 6 cm. Reduce the size of the circles in increments of 2 cm. In total, you should get 16 circles, plus one circle, the diameter of which will be 5 cm. It will be needed to make the top in the form of a cone .
Each of the blanks must be divided into segments. And inside, draw a circle, the diameter of which will be on average equal to the radius of the workpiece. The centers of the circles must coincide. Using scissors, make cuts reaching to the beginning of the inner circle.
Take the edges of the segment and roll it into a tube, securing the ends with glue. Hold each section with your fingers until the glue sets. We do the same with each section. Make a hole in the center of each piece for threading onto a metal frame. Assemble the Christmas tree, starting from larger to smaller diameter.
Cut a segment from the remaining circle and roll it into a cone, securing the edges with glue. Place the cone on top of the tree. Now it’s time for the most creative part of the process – decorating the Christmas tree. Children really like this procedure, so you can safely involve the children in this activity.
For decoration, use bright beads, seed beads, tinsel, rhinestones and other colorful elements. You can secure them with glue; silicone glue is perfect for this procedure; it sets as quickly as possible and has a transparent texture, which makes it completely invisible.
New Year's garland made of paper
New Year is a bright and long-awaited holiday for all children and for many adults. The smell of pine needles hanging in the room, gifts under the fir tree and a decorated house. A large number of people buy New Year's decorations because it's faster and easier, but you can show your creativity and decorate your home with your own hands. For example, make a New Year's garland out of paper. Many people remember garlands and flags from childhood; they are light, convenient, easy to make yourself and easy to store after the holidays. A cheerful colorful garland will help decorate a simple gloomy wall, a long curtain and an ordinary chandelier.
1. What we need to make a paper garland:
- colored paper;
- scissors;
- compass;
- glue;
- rope.
2. Using a compass, draw neat circles of different sizes on the back of the colored paper. Some circles will be larger, others smaller.
3. Using scissors, cut out the resulting multi-colored circles.
4. We combine several circles of the same shape, but different colors. They need to be laid on top of each other and bent in the middle. It turns out to be one large and dense circle.
5. Now let's prepare a circle of the largest shape.
6. Carefully use scissors to make three small holes in it. We make sure that the roundels do not move.
7. We thread the rope into the resulting holes.
8. We have the base of the garland ready.
10. String circles on a rope in descending order from largest to smallest.
11. Let’s fluff up the garland so that all the colors of the paper are visible and it seems more voluminous.
12. We stretch the balls along the rope evenly, at the same distance from each other.
13. You can also decorate the garland with paints - put bright dots in the form of multi-colored scattered confetti. It is better to do this on large circles, since on small ones it may not be noticeable.
14. We ended up with a cheerful, fluffy and colorful garland. Now you can hang it on the wall at home and admire it throughout the New Year holidays!
Volumetric paper snowflake
Outside the window there is a magical winter, the New Year is approaching, the most favorite holiday of children. Everyone, especially children, lives in anticipation of a miracle, and it is in your power to give it to them. It's simple - you need to pay more attention to them, spend time together, do pre-holiday chores together. Children will really enjoy working with their parents on festive New Year's decor, one of the integral elements of which is snowflakes. Everyone can cut them out, but for children who definitely want to participate, it will be more interesting to make voluminous snowflakes that would be appropriate to decorate a Christmas tree, or make a mobile out of them, adding different figures (Christmas trees, balls, angels, etc.) or combine them into a garland. The craft is simple to make and can be done by a 4-5 year old child.
For work you will need: a sheet of double-sided blue paper (can be any shade), a ruler, scissors, glue. Colored paper needs to be cut in half. Then each half needs to be folded like an accordion: put a ruler on the edge of the sheet and make a fold - this is the first strip, align the rest along it (you should get an accordion of 7 strips 3 cm wide). We cut the accordions and get 14 strips. From each strip we form a “needle”: as shown in the photo.
We cut off the protruding ends of the strips. You will get a cone with a sharp protrusion. For the base, cut out a circle of paper with a diameter of 3 cm.
Glue the “needles” onto the base with a cone towards the center, as shown in the photo. First on one side, then, when the glue dries, on the other, making sure that the “needles” are placed in a checkerboard pattern. You should get a snowflake with a diameter of about fourteen centimeters.
Give free rein to your imagination: use white paper or paper of two different shades, additionally decorating the snowflake with sparkles, sequins, etc. If you want a larger snowflake, take two landscape sheets, doubling the width of the stripes.
Make New Year's crafts with your children, give them and yourself the joy of communication, and then this New Year will become truly unforgettable for both you and them.
Paper crown
A carnival costume for a little prince or a capricious princess is unthinkable without an elegant shiny crown. A headdress befitting a young crowned lady can be bought at a toy store, but if it’s evening and you need the crown for tomorrow’s matinee, then there is nothing left to do but build it yourself.
To make such a homemade attribute of royal power you will need:
- a roll of thick food foil;
- a sheet of thin and dense white cardboard;
- hot glue gun;
- scissors;
- several packages of adhesive rhinestones of different colors;
- half a meter of narrow metallic silver braid;
- half a meter of white linen or hat elastic;
- ruler and simple pencil.
Making a crown
1. On a sheet of cardboard, draw a rectangle 25x12 cm and a line parallel to the long edges, divide it into two strips measuring 25x7 and 25x5 cm.
2. Divide the narrow strip into five squares with 5 centimeter sides and fit isosceles triangles with a height and base equal to 5 centimeters into these squares. These will be the teeth of the crown.
3. Add a fastening tongue 1.5 cm wide to one of the short side sides of the larger strip.
4. Cut out a cardboard crown blank and wrap it in foil.
5. To do this, first, with allowances of 1-1.5 cm, cut out the “metal” lining of the outer part of the royal headdress, attach it to the cardboard and fold the excess foil onto the wrong side of the crown.
6. Then cut out the lining of the inside (its dimensions should be slightly smaller than the dimensions of the cardboard base).
7. Place the backing foil facing on the glue and close the crown into a ring.
8. Stepping back 1 cm from the bottom edge of the crown, glue a silver braid edging onto it and decorate it with “crystal” rhinestones.
9. Decorate each prong of our craft with a “flower” assembled from multi-colored rhinestones and “pearl” half-beads.
10. From an elastic band, make (glue, or even better, sew) a ring of such a size that it fits fairly tightly, but not tightly, on the child’s head (in the position across the top of the head and under the chin).
11. Glue the crown to the rubber ring and try the finished headdress on “Their Highness’s” head.
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